Jane Hirshfield

Overview

Jane Hirshfield born Manhattan, NY February 24, 1953. Poet, essayist, and translator. “A Peace Benediction” dedicated at Zen Concert for Peace, 2012.

Quotations

“What poems give us is a way to feel through the underlying dilemmas, a way of recognizing that your own life and the lives of others are not in any way separable. If you don’t recognize that what happens to anyone happens to you, we will go on committing violence to one another.” (“How Can Poems Transform the World?”, Washington Post, May 13, 2015; photo literary-arts.com)